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Parallel JOB 40:15

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BI Job 40:15 ©

Text critical issues=none Clarity of original=clearImportance=normal(All still tentative.)

OET (OET-RV)  ⇔ Now look at the sauropod which I made on the same day as you.
 ⇔ It eats grass like a cow.

OET-LVThere please Behemoth which I_made just_as_you grass like_the_ox it_eats.

UHBהִנֵּה־נָ֣א בְ֭הֵמוֹת אֲשֶׁר־עָשִׂ֣יתִי עִמָּ֑⁠ךְ חָ֝צִ֗יר כַּ⁠בָּקָ֥ר יֹאכֵֽל׃
   (hinnēh-nāʼ əhēmōt ʼₐsher-ˊāsitī ˊimmā⁠k ḩāʦir ka⁠bāqār yoʼkēl.)

Key: khaki:verbs.
Note: Automatic aligning of the OET-RV to the LV is done by some temporary software, hence the OET-RV alignments are incomplete (and may occasionally be wrong).

BrLXXἈλλὰ δὴ ἰδοὺ θηρία παρὰ σοὶ, χόρτον ἶσα βουσὶν ἐσθίουσιν.
   (Alla daʸ idou thaʸria para soi, ⱪorton isa bousin esthiousin. )

BrTrBut now look at the wild beasts with thee; they eat grass like oxen.

ULTNow behold Behemoth, which I made with you;
 ⇔ it eats grass like an ox.

USTBut to show you how insignificant you really are,
 ⇔ I want you to think about a great animal that I created, the hippopotamus.
 ⇔ I made you, and I also made it.
 ⇔ Even though this great beast has the size and strength to hunt and kill other animals, it eats plants as oxen do.

BSB  ⇔ Look at Behemoth, which I made along with you.
 ⇔ He feeds on grass like an ox.


OEBBehold now the huge beast beside thee:
 ⇔ He eateth up grass like an ox.

CSB Look at Behemoth, which I made along with you. He eats grass like cattle.

NLT “Take a look at Behemoth, which I made, just as I made you. It eats grass like an ox.

NIV “Look at Behemoth, which I made along with you and which feeds on grass like an ox.

CEV I created both you and the hippopotamus. It eats only grass like an ox,

ESV “Behold, Behemoth, which I made as I made you; he eats grass like an ox.

NASB “Behold now, Behemoth, which I made as well as you; He eats grass like an ox.

LSB “Behold now, Behemoth, which I made along with you; It eats grass like an ox.

1ST There, please, is the Great Creature, which I made along with you, which eats grass like cattle.

WEBBE  ⇔ “See now behemoth, which I made as well as you.
 ⇔ He eats grass as an ox.

WMBB (Same as above)

MSG(15-24)“Look at the land beast, Behemoth. I created him as well as you.
  Grazing on grass, docile as a cow—
Just look at the strength of his back,
  the powerful muscles of his belly.
His tail sways like a cedar in the wind;
  his huge legs are like beech trees.
His skeleton is made of steel,
  every bone in his body hard as steel.
Most magnificent of all my creatures,
  but I still lead him around like a lamb!
The grass-covered hills serve him meals,
  while field mice frolic in his shadow.
He takes afternoon naps under shade trees,
  cools himself in the reedy swamps,
Lazily cool in the leafy shadows
  as the breeze moves through the willows.
And when the river rages he doesn’t budge,
  stolid and unperturbed even when the Jordan goes wild.
But you’d never want him for a pet—
  you’d never be able to housebreak him!”

NET“Look now at Behemoth, which I made as I made you;
 ⇔ it eats grass like the ox.

LSVNow behold, behemoth,
That I made with you: He eats grass as an ox.

FBVConsider Behemoth,[fn] a creature I made just like I made you. It eats grass like cattle.


40:15 Some identify Behemoth as the hippopotamus; others with a legendary creature. Behemoth is the plural of the usual word for animal.

T4T  ⇔ “Think also about the huge animals that live near the water.
 ⇔ I made you, and I made them also.
 ⇔ They eat grass, like oxen do.

LEB• [fn] which I have made just as I made you; it eats grass like the ox.


40:1 Some interpret as a hippopotamus

NRSV “Look at Behemoth, which I made just as I made you; it eats grass like an ox.

NKJV “Look now at the behemoth, which I made along with you; He eats grass like an ox.

NAB Look at Behemoth, whom I made along with you, who feeds on grass like an ox.

BBESee now the Great Beast, whom I made, even as I made you; he takes grass for food, like the ox.

MoffNo Moff JOB book available

JPSBehold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass as an ox.

ASV  ⇔ Behold now, behemoth, which I made as well as thee;
 ⇔ He eateth grass as an ox.

DRATo him the mountains bring forth grass: there all the beasts of the field shall play.

YLTLo, I pray thee, Behemoth, that I made with thee: Grass as an ox he eateth.

DrbySee now the behemoth, which I made with thee: he eateth grass as an ox.

RVBehold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass as all ox.

WbstrBehold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass as an ox.

KJB-1769¶ Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass as an ox.[fn]
   (¶ Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee/you; he eateth grass as an ox. )


40.15 behemoth: probably an extinct animal of some kind

KJB-1611[fn]Beholde now Behemoth which I made with thee, hee eateth grasse as an oxe.
   (¶ Behold now Behemoth which I made with thee/you, he eateth grass as an oxe.)


40:15 Or, the Elephant, as some think.

BshpsBeholde the beaste Behemoth, who I made with thee, which eateth haye as an oxe:
   (Behold the beaste Behemoth, who I made with thee/you, which eateth haye as an oxe:)

GnvaSurely the mountaines bring him foorth grasse, where all the beastes of the fielde play.
   (Surely the mountains bring him forth grasse, where all the beasts/animals of the field play. )

CvdlBeholde, the cruell beaste (whom I made wt the) which eateth haye as an oxe:
   (Behold, the cruell beaste (whom I made with the) which eateth haye as an oxe:)

WyclHillis beren eerbis to this behemot; alle the beestis of the feeld pleien there.
   (Hillis beren eerbis to this behemot; all the beasts/animals of the field pleien there.)

LuthSiehe, der Behemoth, den ich neben dir gemacht habe, frißt Heu wie ein Ochse.
   (See, the/of_the Behemoth, the I next_to you/to_you made have, frißt Heu like a Ochse.)

ClVgHuic montes herbas ferunt: omnes bestiæ agri ludent ibi.
   (Huic mountains herbas ferunt: everyone bestiæ agri ludent ibi. )


TSNTyndale Study Notes:

40:15-24 Following a list of natural animals (39:1-30), God described Behemoth (40:15-24) and Leviathan (41:1-34) as creatures that man cannot tame. Job couldn’t tame the wild donkey or ox (39:5-12), let alone Behemoth and Leviathan (40:15-24), but God created them and could control them, and Job had to acknowledge it (41:2).
• Here Behemoth seems to be a natural creature: (1) It is an animal that God made, just as he made Job (40:15); (2) it is not a dreadful predator but eats grass like an ox (40:15); and (3) it is in a poem describing God’s creation of the natural order, rather than in a mythological story of the world’s formation. Most commentators identify Behemoth with the hippopotamus, a huge, grass-eating animal (40:15-19) that lies in the river among the lotus plants and reeds (40:21). Like the wild ox, Behemoth is powerful (40:16-18, 24; 39:11), yet is essentially peaceful (40:20-23).


UTNuW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy

הִנֵּה

see/lo/see!

Yahweh is speaking as if he wants Job to behold or look at an animal that is not present. Yahweh is using sight to represent attention. If it would be helpful in your language, you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “consider”

Note 2 topic: translate-names

בְ֭הֵמוֹת

behemoth

See the discussion of the name Behemoth in the General Notes to this chapter to decide how to represent this name in your translation.

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit

אֲשֶׁר־עָשִׂ֣יתִי עִמָּ֑⁠ךְ

which/who made just_as,you

Yahweh means that he made Behemoth just as he made Job, not that he made Behemoth at the same time when he made Job. Alternate translation: “which I myself created, just as I created you”

Note 4 topic: grammar-connect-logic-contrast

חָ֝צִ֗יר כַּ⁠בָּקָ֥ר יֹאכֵֽל

grass like_the,ox eats

There is an implied contrast here. This great beast has the size and strength to hunt and kill other animals; nevertheless, it lives on plants. (This may be an implicit indication that such great wild beasts remain under the restraint of Yahweh.) You may wish to indicate this contrast in your translation, in a way that is natural in your language. Alternate translation: “despite its great size and strength, it eats grass like an ox”

Note 5 topic: figures-of-speech / synecdoche

חָ֝צִ֗יר

grass

Yahweh is probably using one kind of plant, grass, to mean all kinds of green plants that animals eat. If it would be helpful in your language, you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “green plants”

BI Job 40:15 ©